Glorious Retrofuture from Japan, Part Two

These are very rare and beautiful visions, published in Japan in the 1930s-1960s

We are continuing our ever-popular series of extremely rare and fantastic retrofuture finds from Japan (read the first part here), boldly exploring the fertile territory of science fiction art and futuristic illustrations from a country of unlimited dreams and super-charged imagination.

Robotic spaceship helps astronauts in distress:

(this illustration, and the ones below, are from the "Shonen Sunday Magazine", 1969)

Submarine robots help with the deep-sea rescue:

Firefighters need a flying robot like this:

Another robot from the "Robot Age" series ("Shonen Sunday Magazine", 1969) is this mechanism from the "Journey to the Center of the Earth":

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